worn out - Story 168067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus rumbled along the familiar route, but today, everything looked different. The vibrant colors of the fall leaves seemed muted, the laughter of the children at the bus stop grating on her nerves. She clutched the strap of her backpack, knuckles white.

The words "application denied" echoed in her head, a constant, unwelcome refrain. The pressure in her chest made it difficult to breathe. Every step felt like a monumental effort.

She stared out the window, watching the city blur by. The world seemed to spin faster and faster, leaving her struggling to keep up.

Emotion: worn out

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -1.12 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worn out. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 worn out stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worn out emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worn out vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.265
`😩`	0.234
`疲れ`	0.226
`que`	0.221
`sighed`	0.221

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.357
`because`	-0.228
`l`	-0.222
`భి`	-0.208
`あくまで`	-0.208